September 14, 2012

She traveled halfway around the world to distance herself from Obama reelection politics, and now — one week after the Democratic convention that she got as far away from as possible — she's stuck right in the middle of things.

And, she's the very symbol of the war between the Muslim world and the West... or between the traditional, religious world and the modern world that rejects all tradition and religion.

The destruction of tradition that she represents is precisely what the jihadis hate.

And, with good reason.

As awful as the Muslim world may be in its treatment of women, the West is becoming just as bad in the way that it coddles and panders to women. The ideology of the west is producing truckloads of worthless spoiled brats like Sandra Fluke.

She's the freaking Secretary of State. Of course she's in the middle of things. It's her policy. We're supposed to feel bad that she actually has to come back to the country and face the trouble she helped create?

Wait for the tell-all books. Clinton has a CYA in place. She is going to say: "I put all of this information in the security briefings and prepped my people to explain it to the president. I don't know why he did not act on this information; he must have had conflicting information. We were prepared and willing to brief him on all information that we had at the time."

"Wait for the tell-all books. Clinton has a CYA in place. She is going to say: "I put all of this information in the security briefings and prepped my people to explain it to the president. I don't know why he did not act on this information; he must have had conflicting information. We were prepared and willing to brief him on all information that we had at the time."

Trust me. Clinton will not go down easily."

Certainly a plausible situation since we know Barry doesn't attend any of the briefings.

As I've said before, Hillary is almost certainly a multiple felon (e.g. Whitewater, cattle futures, helping suborn or encourage Bill's perjury) who has so far escaped justice. As such, she contributes greatly to the disrespect voters have for our present ruling class.

Her performance as Sec State has become criminally negligentbut that is, unfortunately, no surprise.

Two problems for Hillary. One is that the policies were either hers, or she eagerly did Obama's bidding in implementing them. My guess is more the latter, that implementing Obama's vision of foreign relations, and esp. sucking up to the Muslim world, was one of the quid pro quos for getting her dream job.

The other thing though is that the blood of those four is on her hands, as it is on Obama's. They were working for her, either directly, or indirectly, and it was her responsibility to make sure that they were safe. She failed there. Is she really going to be able to claim that she didn't and couldn't have seen the intelligence that was available at least 48 hours before the attacks? It seems likely that her organization did not pass that intelligence to the people on the ground, those most likely to be affected by it.

Our embassy breached. A major national security and diplomatic mess. Four of our people dead, our ambassador sodomized and his bodied dragged in the streets by jackals and our hostess remarks " poor Hillary". Now there is one hugely misplaced piece of sympathy. What happened and our official response is a national travesty. Hillary doesn't deserve sympathy, only opprobrium.

Let's hope Althouse was being facetious. And Seven Machos too when he wrote that he "felt sorry" for Obama. Otherwise, they (Althouse and Machos) seem to be scoffing at Eastwood's message that it's OK to get rid of people who not up to the job.

Four people died over somebody's mistakes and it's hardly something to laugh about.

It's of her own making. Seriously, "Islam is a great religion"? What does that mean? What does this opinion have to do with her role as Secretary of State? Is she implying other religions are not as great? Is Islam great because of its rage? Its violence? Are we all to tremble in fear, lest we offend them? Will we be forced to submit to Sharia Law? WTF is going on here?

The worst thing is that some of those in the press who have been given the honor of reporting about how she's been the bestest ever Secretary of State are sort of mad at her now for making them look bad.

Shiloh, was "hyperbole" the word of the day at your summer camp or something? Cause, dude you got it on the mind big time.

But again, much like Alanis Morissette's failure to understand the meaning of irony in her song "Ironic" you don't seem to really understand what hyperbole means.

If our ambassador had gotten a black eye from a protestor and we were calling for Hillary's resignation and screaming about Barry's abject failure on foreign policy that would be hyperbole.

As it is, the fact that we have four murdered Americans, embassies ransacked, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs calling a citizen to tell him to shut up, the FBI investigating someone for exercising their free speech rights, and our leaders saying we need to be more respectful of the attackers' religion, I think we are all pretty much being very muted in our criticisms.

I doubt anyone here agrees with that statement taken literally (that it's literally "just as bad").

It's fair to criticize that statement (I would). But it's unfair IMO to extrapolate from one commenter's one sentence to "this blog and its commenters" in general.

I find that move (extrapolating and generalizing about "Althouse commenters" or epithets for them) to be... unsporting, let's say. When you start generalizing like that, you start (very faintly) sounding like someone else around here (whom I consider to be a troll, very much unlike you).

Of course, I realize your generalization (and your claim that in the context of this blog that statement seems "reasonable") is just a bit of exaggeration too.

As for "Sharia Law," I think that's valid metonymy, as it were. What's at issue is the demand and the prospect of prosecuting "blasphemy" (or "defamation of religion," as seen in resolutions passed by the U.N.).

That's highly unlikely to ever happen here, because of our (infinitely treasured by me) First Amendment. But take a gander at Canada and the U.K. to see that criminalizing blasphemous, religion-defaming speech (qua "hate speech") is not farfetched, in societies we consider not too different from our own. And a lot of rhetoric and arguments we've heard from certain quarters in the last few days approach exactly this terrain.

Powerful or not, it's 911. The date is the warning. We are supposed to heighten security around that date. But we didn't even have Marines protecting the Libya Consul, in a country fighting a civil war. We blamed the Egyptian policemen for running away when the mob scaled the wall, while our Marines were armed with blanks. Just like Obama, hollow.

In the movie "The Devil Wears Prada", there's a great scene where Andrea the assistant walks in on her boss Miranda who has just learned that her husband filed for divorce. "Oh, Miranda," Andrea says, "I'm so sorry! Is there anything I can do?" "Yes." Miranda replies, "Your job." I bring this up because all the sad eyes and hurt feelings for and by Hillary aren't what we need from the Secretary of State. We need her to do her job. Moreover, if she had been doing her job competently, then we would have been better prepared to deal with this.

SomeoneHasToSayIt said...As I've said before, Hillary is almost certainly a multiple felon (e.g. Whitewater, cattle futures, helping suborn or encourage Bill's perjury) who has so far escaped justice. As such, she contributes greatly to the disrespect voters have for our present ruling class.

=====================And your fellow extremists on the Left, practicing "Lawfare" to try and criminalize the opposition by extending stupid legal charges into politics...say Bush, Cheney are felons because they are war criminals. Ronnie and Nancy were criminals because they paid no taxes for several years, and Mitt Romney likely a dastardly felon as well.I'm sure a hardcore leftist prosecutor could find some charges on Paul Ryan and Anne Romney as well.

Sick of it, sick of people on both sides chasing trivial scandals while America is under seige with dire, urgent, and real problems.

SomeoneHasToSayIt said...As I've said before, Hillary is almost certainly a multiple felon (e.g. Whitewater, cattle futures, helping suborn or encourage Bill's perjury) who has so far escaped justice. As such, she contributes greatly to the disrespect voters have for our present ruling class.

=====================And your fellow extremists on the Left, practicing "Lawfare" to try and criminalize the opposition by extending stupid legal charges into politics...say Bush, Cheney are felons because they are war criminals. Ronnie and Nancy were criminals because they paid no taxes for several years, and Mitt Romney likely a dastardly felon as well.I'm sure a hardcore leftist prosecutor could find some charges on Paul Ryan and Anne Romney as well.

Sick of it, sick of people on both sides chasing trivial scandals while America is under seige with dire, urgent, and real problems.

What evidence do we have that Mrs. Clinton is a sound foreign policy hand? She became Senator in New York because the Clinton machine made it happen. She got good assignments in the Senate, and demonstrated, as far as I can tell, a good work ethic and intelligence. Then, after a bit over a term, a time which included a run for President, she became Secretary of State. That's not much foriegn policy experience, however intelligent she is, and however hard she works.